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Adam Cotterill
@adamcotterill95
I owe so much gratitude to
@oliverburkeman
for the work he put in to write 4,000 weeks: Time Management for Mortals. It's the most insightful book I've ever read. My favorite part is his concept of Cosmic Insignificance Theory. In short: The Universe Doesn’t Give a Flying Fuck.
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Tim Urban
@waitbutwhy
The most epic zoom in ever, from the entire Milky Way down to the supermassive black hole at its center. We know about the black hole from observing the motion of the stars around it—especially the rapidly orbiting star called S2. Credit: ESO/GRAVITY collaboration
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Adam Cotterill
@adamcotterill95
Cosmic Insignificance Theory is relatively simple: The anxieties that clutter our lives — relationship troubles, status rivalries, money worries, pandemics — shrink instantly down to irrelevance in the context of the cosmos in which we live.
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Adam Cotterill
@adamcotterill95
The initial graphic I used in this thread was shared initially by one of my favorite writers -
@waitbutwhy
- and then re-shared by
@farnamstreet
in its weekly newsletter. I consider both publications to be mandatory reading.
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